#theageofendarkenment — Public Fediverse posts
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World’s largest forest research agency faces severe cutback by tRump administration
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01493-w
The US Forest Service has proposed closing some three-quarters of its research sites in a move that has provoked widespread fear and uncertainty. -
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools
https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-rounds/
A new bill would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools -
'Heartbreaking': Iranian scientists on losing labs, libraries and liberty
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01394-y
Bombing of Iran's civilian infrastructure has damaged universities, destroyed thousands of books and manuscripts, amid a government-imposed Internet blackout, some of the country's researchers have told Nature. -
Key US science panels are being axed — and others are becoming less open
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01301-5
A Nature analysis shows that the tRump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain. -
‘One of the darkest days’: [US National Institutes of Health] NIH purges agency leadership amid mass lay-offs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01016-z
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts